[XeTeX] hyphenation in adobe garamond pro

[Rembrandt Wolpert]

Hi Bob,

I agree with Alain. The hyphen in Garamond Premier Pro is purposely
distinguished in shape from n-dash (--) and m-dash (---). (Those two *are*
straight, in addition to being different in length.)

Rembrandt


On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Alain Delmotte <esperanto at swing.be> wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> But perhaps you should respect the designer's work!
> I think it is OK to be able to change anything in font,... but then why
> should the designer spend a lot of time fine tuning his fonts if they will
> be changed anyway.
> The tilted hyphen is part of the look of the font; most probably there are
> many other differences you didn't notice yet.
>
> But agreed, it is not usual (or didn't I pay attention!!)
>
> Alain
>
> Bob Yu a écrit :
>
>> Thanks Nicolas and Alex!
>>
>> I might change it. Not used to this titled one ;-)
>>
>> Haibo
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Alexandre Pachot <pachot at gmail.com<mailto:
>> pachot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi bob,
>>
>>    I just check my Garamond Premier Pro font trough TextEdit, and the
>>    14th (2D)(hyphen-minus) glyph, look like this !
>>
>>    Alex
>>
>>
>>    2009/7/18 Bob Yu <tocalert at gmail.com <mailto:tocalert at gmail.com>>
>>
>>        dear all,
>>
>>        i am trying to use adobe garamond pro font. however i found
>>        the hyphenation "dash" is not straight but tilted, see the
>>        attached picture? how can i solve this problem?
>>
>>        thanks a lot.
>>
>>        bob
>>
>>
>>
>>
>


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